Editor’s Note
Anybody who’s heard an Immortal Technique song is likely to have understood that this New York emcee was on the political tangent of hip-hop and that he was extremely knowledgeable in matters of history and the record industry. Also an activist, Immortal Technique seems to take pride in raising awareness on social injustices, particularly in the United States and Latin America. (He was born in Peru.) So, it should come as no surprise that he felt like opining on the recent Hezbollah conflict with Israel. This is the third part of a blog entry he made on MySpace on July 24th.

You know I talk a lot about history and bring up White people’s role in it and some White people get offended. If you think I’m preaching hate it’s because you hate what I’m preaching. These are historical facts, and I will not change history to make someone feel better about the legacy of their people. At the same time, I don’t speak these words with hatred, because I have met many White people in my travels that are more Revolutionary than the majority of Black and Brown people. Men and women who are willing to fight and die for this cause of exposing a society that hides its classism by altering history and creating more racism.

That we are in the year 2006 arguing over someone’s right to exist is a clear indication of how primitive our society is. That’s like arguing over a woman’s right to not be raped. White people are never going to leave America. Even though they are not indigenous to the land they stole, they are not going to pack up and go back to where they came from. And by the same token, the majority of Israelis, who are Eastern European and Russian Jews and maybe not the original Hebrews, are not going to take their belongings and return to the misery of the places they left.

No matter what we say that’s just not going to happen. Once people who question Israel’s existence accept that and move on, they will be pervious to methods that may empower their own people economically and spiritually, and create a homeland that does not monetarily support the people who oppress them. I do believe in Israel’s right to exist peacefully. If that can be true for them, then all the more reason for the Palestinian State to exist and to be in full control over its land in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

I believe that a people who have been written out of history by several conquerors and who have been the victims of an occupation are due to receive recognition and empowerment so that they can organize their own lives. People look at Palestine as some small terrorist state, as if they are not fighting for their own very survival as well. Keep in mind that Hamas is a government that, whether the US likes it or not, was elected into leadership.

That should be incredibly embarrassing for the US media as well as the State Department, this Administration and its puppet Emperor who talk about building democracy in The Middle East. And who are its allies besides Israel? The King of Jordan, the King of Saudi Arabia, the kings and princes of Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, and the cheerful military dictatorship of Pakistan.

These are a collective coalition of totalitarian regimes who have a pass for their actions in the Western media because of their strategic US Military bases and ties to our corporate economy. Even though they have horrible human rights records that include election fraud, summary execution, torture and, in many instances, treating their women worse than the portrayal of the Taliban.

Some might ask how we got ourselves here, but let us not forget that the Arab people are a conquered people as well who have had their contributions to the world seemingly written out of history. For example, when we open books about science and math we just see white faces and European names. But some of the very foundation of Mathematics, Algorithms and Algebra (Al-habra: The Solving of Problems by Reduction) belong to the proud people of that region. If you read the history of Arabic influence over the creation of the Mathematics, which is the building block of all of our technology, it shows that they opened a dimension of equations that was beyond the understanding of the glorified Egyptians, Greeks and Romans.

It is sad to see that many are spoon fed versions of Islam by a ruling elite who see the ignorance of the poor as a political tool to use for their own personal discretion. (More classism people!) For example, the Sunni–Shiite conflict originates in the early struggle of who was deemed fit to take control of Islam and be the successor, the decedents of the Prophet Mohammed or simply his devoted followers. From the moment the Prophet died (peace be unto him), the argument was never about the purity of Islam or sanctity of religion. It was about a struggle for power. Proof of this is seen in the fact that the Caliphs fought and killed each other the way the Kings of Judea and the Popes of the post-Roman era did. Because belief is power, and religion is the window through which people see the world without ever looking outside for themselves.

For more on Immortal Technique...
- http://www.myspace.com/immortaltechnique
- http://www.viperrecords.com/imtech/bio.shtml
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immortal_Technique
- Read Part One of "A Revolution in The Middle East"
- Read Part Two of "A Revolution in The Middle East"

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